I agree in part.
First - this is Little Haiti, in Miami.
Second - I too have great concern about ANY adult being able to whoop ANY kid--including teen aged girls, on their own judgment.
BUT - We all know that the shopkeeper could have called the parents or the police and nothing would have been done about it.
And that is JUST as wrong.
If nobody will hold the child or the parents responsible, how long until vigilantism takes the matter into it's unforgiving hands?